This application was developed by the SC Department of Natural Resources to visualize the seasonal occurrence and spatial distribution for marine species (acoustically-tagged by numerous research groups) when those animals occurred in coastal waters off of SC and GA. The acoustic receiver detection data presented in the viewer is aggregated by species and month, which was done to convey trends without disclosing details about individual transmitters which are the analytical property of the taggers.
Source data for all animations are the sum of species days of detection at a given receiver location for each species in each month; detection frequency data were standardized to this metric to avoid bias associated with highly resident individuals. Because species days could be attributed to multiple days of data for a few individuals or only one day of data for numerous individuals, we did not produce animations for species with less than 30 total ‘species days’ of source data. As such, animations cannot be viewed for all detected species in the study.
The animations were developed by Tanner Arrington and Erin Koch using ArcGIS Desktop software and the ArcGIS JavaScript API v3.17 for web development. The general workflow for how the data were formatted and how you can create a viewer for your time-enabled data is outlined below. If you have further questions about our time-enabled data and web animations, please contact Erin Koch.
Dr. Mike D. Arendt, Assistant Marine Scientist,
Marine Resources Research Institute, Marine Division of SC Department of Natural Resources
Email: ArendtM@dnr.sc.gov
Address: 217 Fort Johnson Road
Charleston, SC 29412
Phone: 843-953-9097
Tyler Brown, GIS Manager
SC Department of Natural Resources
Email: BrownTy@dnr.sc.gov
Address: 1000 Assembly Street, Suite 118
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: 803-734-3162